Curriculum Vitae

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Work samples

Education

Master of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2024
• Major in visual computing
• Minor in machine intelligence
• GPA: 5.78/6.0

Bachelor of Computer Science in at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Majored in Physics, Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2018
• Changed major into Computer Science and Technology, Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2021
• GPA: 3.89/4.0

Scholarship & Awards

• China National Scholarship (Top 1%), Oct. 2020
• Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship (Top 10%) at Computer Science and Technology Department, Tsinghua, Oct. 2019
• Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship (Top 10%) at Physics Department, Tsinghua, Oct. 2017
• Third prize in The Challenge Cup (science and innovation competition) of Tsinghua, Oct. 2020
• National Silver Prize, Chinese National Olympiad in Physics, 2015
• Provincial Second Prize, Chinese National Olympiad in Informatics, 2014

Research Experience

Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

• Master thesis, Dec. 2023 - Jul. 2024
• Research on spatial subdivision for path guiding.

Rendering Group, Disney Research Studios, Zurich, Switzerland

• Semester thesis, Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023
• Research on improving the path sampling for realistic image synthesis using machine learning methods.

Realistic Graphics Lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

• Summer research intern, Jun. 2022 - Sep. 2022
• Polish and extend kernel caching features in Dr.Jit, a just-in-time compiler for inverse rendering.

Graphics and Geometric Computing Group, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Undergraduate research fellow & bachelor thesis, Oct. 2019 - Jun. 2021
• Second author of Ensemble Denoising for Monte Carlo Renderings.
• Published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021.

Pervasive Human-Computer Interaction Group, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Undergraduate research fellow, Jan. 2019 - May 2019
• Third author of a ProxiTalk, a novel mobile phone interaction technique.
• Published at IMWUT 2019.

Work Experience

ByteDance Inc, Shanghai, China

• Graphics programming intern at game department, Jun. 2020 - Sep. 2020
• Develop real-time real-tracing water pool graphics effects in Unity Engine.
• Parallelize wave simulation and caustics computation on GPU.

SIGA Services AG, Ruswil, Switzerland

• Software engineer intern, Mar. 2022 - Jun. 2022
• Develop OpenGL solutions to render point clouds with Xamarin.

Selected Course Projects

Master Courses, ETH Zurich

Computer Graphics

• Implement a physics-based renderer based on Nori, an tutorial rendering framework.
• Advanced features:
  • Render participating media (clouds, smoke, etc) with multiple importance sampling.
  • Implement Disney BSDF, an appearance model widely used in production.
  • Procedural generation of a night city scene.

Scientific Visualization

• Develop a real-time visualization application for cosmology simulation based on VTK library.
• Support interactive rendering of various particle properties (temperature, potential, velocity, etc).

Physics-based Simulation

• Implement position based fluid simulation based on Taichi.
• Handle fluid-solid interaction through collision detection.

Advanced Systems Lab

• Implement and optimize stochastic progressive photon mapping, an offline rendering algorithm.
• Achieve a fully vectorized (SIMD) implementation with 22.7x speedup compared to the baseline.

Bachelor Courses, Tsinghua University

Service Oriented Software Design and Development

• Design and develop a web-based system to analyze and visualize COVID-19 related information.
• Integrate a web crawler to update COVID data and news periodically.
• Apply clustering and statistical methods to extract the topics and keywords of news.
• Design a beautiful frontend for visualizing geological and timeline data of diversed types.

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

• Implement a C++ physically-based renderer from scratch.
• Advanced features:
  • stochastic progressive photon mapping global illumination algorithm.
  • ray intersection with Bezier surfaces through Newton’s method.
  • parse scene files from JSON.

Fundamentals of Search Engine Technology

• Develop a search engine for judiciary cases.
• Implement a high-performance and high-concurrency GoLang backend.
• Create dedicated MySQL commands to do fast and complex search queries.
• Design and implement an intuitive and user-friendly frontend.

Human-Computer Interaction Theory and Technology

• Propose and research on a mobile phone camera interaction app
• Core features:
  • Adjust the back camera’s zoom ratio with the front camera’s depth information.
  • Auto “capture” triggering by smile detection.
• Conduct a 14-user evaluation experiment and prove the effectiveness of our proposed app.

Computer Organization

• Design and implement a MIPS32 CPU in Verilog.
• Highlighted features:
  • Capable of running a tutorial operating system.
  • Support several peripherals including DVI video output and flash storage.
  • A fixed-point numerical system and a three-body problem simulation demo in MIPS assembly.

Principles and Practice of Compiler Construction

• Enhance a Java-like language compiler implemented in Rust.
• Add functional programming features including lambda expressions and first-class functions.
• Implement some compiling optimization actions and an iterative global register allocation algorithm.

Software Engineering

• Develop a web-based live teaching platform for Jisuanke Company.

Foundation of Object-Oriented Programming

• Design and implement two physically-based 2D games based on Qt and LiquidFun physics engine.
• Repo 1, repo 2

Skills

• Programming
  • Proficient in C/C++, Python, JavaScript
  • Familiar with Go, Rust, MySQL, Swift, C#, Assembly, Mathematica, Unity
• Language
  • Chinese: Native
  • English: Fluent
    • TOEFL 105 (reading 28, listening 27, speaking 24, writing 26)
    • GRE Verbal 156, Quantitative 169, AW 4.0
  • French: Intermediate (B1)
  • German: Beginner (A1)